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From: greg@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gregory Nowak)
Newsgroups: misc.misc,alt.flame,news.admin
Subject: Re: JJ's Grovelling
Message-ID: <3029@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 27 May 88 22:37:55 GMT
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In article <10381@ism780c.UUCP> mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic) writes:

>Here's the summary of mail that people sent me...

>>I'm interested.  What did he say?  Why don't you post this (to a single
>>newsgroup please :-) )?  I think this actually borders on fraud and possibly
>>mail fraud, since he's asking people to mail money back to him.

It's quite likely. I heard of a case once where a man was convicted
for fraud (mail or some other kind, I don't know) after running an ad
saying "Send $1 to : [addresss]" His defense was that since he hadn't
promised anything for the $1, he was innocent. He got hosed, ha ha.

--greg		greg@phoenix.princeton.edu